>> joining us now is the author and founder of the center for urban renewal and education, star parker. good morning, thanks for being with us. >> good morning. good to be here. >> you say although there were great intentions back in the 1960s with lyndon johnson, the president that we have currently has just gotten things out of hand. >> well, when we even question the intentions, we have to say do we want to be a nation of dependency? it isn't a matter of just makers and takers when you talk about our entitlement programs, social security and medicare. we have to exclude medicaid from this discussion because medicaid is a transfer system. the people that are paying the benefit are not the ones that are receiving the benefit, but with social security and medicare, what we've done is we've developed out a dependency where our seniors are dependent on current workers. current worker workers pay for e retirees. what's happened with that pyramid turning upside down is we're more dependent on government transferring wealth from one generation to the other, so when you ask the at question a